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Data Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco · Mountain View

CHECKED 35M AGO

Frontier labremotesenior$235k–$385k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build core data pipelines powering safety systems and business decisions.
  • Collaborate with ChatGPT researchers to help train new models.
  • Shape product growth insights at OpenAI's Applied team.

What they offer

  • Equity
  • Relocation assistance

Ideal candidate

Data-driven engineer with 8+ years building impactful systems who thrives collaborating across product and research. Passionate about responsible AI and turning user data into insights that guide growth and safety.

Requirements

  • 3+ years as a data engineer and 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java
  • Experience with distributed processing and storage like Hadoop, Flink, HDFS, S3
  • Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect
  • Solid understanding of Spark and ability to write, debug and optimize Spark code

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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